Juniper Mist Asset Visibility Datasheet

Juniper has a robust ecosystem of technology partners that can help you deliver amazing wireless experiences through product interoperability. Possible use cases for tags and workflow applications with our ecosystem partners are:

• Retail: improve inventory management and loss prevention; optimize shelf management, store layout and merchandise placement and track personnel and equipment.
• Healthcare: minimize disruptions and delays in hospital operations, monitor personnel for employee health and safety, and track the inventory and location of medical equipment.
• Higher education: manage campus asset visibility/tracking; minimize theft and loss of valuable school property and scientific equipment; and track usage of classrooms, labs, and other indoor campus areas.
• Manufacturing: optimize workflows and equipment maintenance; monitor the precise location of products and equipment like forklifts, pallets, and robotic carts.
• Enterprise: improve IT asset management; locate audio-visual equipment, office hardware, and mobile computing assets; and optimize space utilization by tracking employee traffic patterns and resource usage.

Asset Visibility is a cloud-based microservice delivered by the Juniper Mist platform. Juniper High-Performance APs hear BLE asset tags and beacons and transfer the information to Asset Visibility’s location engine, which assembles and analyzes the incoming signals. Asset Visibility provides multiple dashboards that help the user locate and identify both people and things, plus gain insight into overall asset activities.

Juniper  Access Points with a differentiated 16-element virtual Bluetooth LE (vBLE) antenna enable multiple samples to be heard for each third-party BLE asset tag. The APs send detected signals to the microservices-based Juniper Mist cloud architecture. The same infrastructure for engaging with mobile users can be used for asset visibility, and machine learning eliminates the need for manual RF fingerprinting or calibration.

Juniper Access Points work in conjunction with Juniper Mist Cloud and Mist AI to deliver premium wireless access capabilities. Traditional wireless LAN solutions rely on antiquated architectures that lack the scale, reliability, and agility needed to address today’s diverse enterprise needs. Juniper solves these issues with an innovative approach to wireless access that combines AI-driven automation and insight with the flexibility and dependability of a microservices cloud.

Juniper Mist wireless solutions enable IT teams to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting while strategically using IoT and location services to transform operations and drive innovation. These Juniper enterprise-grade access points support Bluetooth LE: AP45, AP34 and AP24 Series, which support Wi-Fi 6E, and the AP43, AP33, and AP63 Series, which support 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6).

These access points are all managed by the real-time microservices based in Juniper Mist cloud.

A cloud-native, AI-driven microservices architecture provides unparalleled agility, scale, and resiliency to your network. It lowers OpEx and delivers unprecedented insights into location services for asset visibility at scale. With the power of cloud, and the standards-based interoperability for Wi-Fi and BLE, Asset Visibility is enabled by a simple click. The operations team can access asset location estimates in real time for all discovered signals on the floor plan. Relevant signals can be named as assets of significance based on MAC address, Service UUID, iBeacon, or Eddystone tag types. All named assets will be tracked for both real-time use and historical analytics.

Juniper, along with its extensive group of third-party partners, provides tailored workflow applications to get the most value out of Asset Visibility delivered from the Juniper Mist cloud. From asset tracking to employee health and safety monitoring, use cases span the spectrum and enable data-driven decision making across the various vertical business segments. Third-party applications can integrate easily with the location and zone Webhooks, including raw data for encrypted telemetry payloads. When integrated with Asset Visibility, the apps enable various location-based workflows and IOT use cases.

You can easily locate key personnel resources such as nurses, security guards, and sales associates, using our standards-based Bluetooth LE services. Additionally, you can track industrial equipment, IT assets, and other high-value assets utilizing Bluetooth LE tags.

Deploying location services is cost effective and efficient with Juniper APs that incorporate a patented, dynamic 16-element directional antenna array for Bluetooth LE signals. Combined with unsupervised machine learning, this unique vBLE solution enables enterprises to deliver asset visibility solutions with scale and minimal costs.

Asset Visibility interoperates with any standards-based, third-party BLE tags to provide real-time visibility and location monitoring of assets. By attaching a third-party BLE tag to assets, businesses can streamline operations and management and extensively monitor both people and things. Asset tracking enables more efficient resource allocation, enhances operational efficiency, and improves overall productivity.

Open APIs allow for automation and seamless integration with external applications. The APIs provide the capability to invoke actions based on user or external events, as well as for using the cloud-native Webhook framework. The Juniper Mist platform, which supports Asset Visibility, is 100% programmable for full automation and seamless integration across Juniper access, wired, wireless, WAN, security, user engagement, and asset location domains.

The Juniper Mist cloud architecture keeps the Asset Visibility service optimized with the most advanced technologies. New features, security patches, and updates are automatically added on a bi-weekly basis without interruptions or service downtime. This dramatically simplifies and improves service operations for network IT administrators by eliminating lengthy software upgrades and service downtime.

Having a standards-based platform has been vital to Juniper building a strong ecosystem of partners that can implement location services and asset tracking. These partners utilize Asset Visibility in their workflow and tracking applications to track assets based on BLE tags and wireless handsets, and they can integrate third-party information onto their platforms. In addition, Juniper supports numerous third-party BLE tag and badge vendors, including iBeacon and Eddystone-enabled tags.

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